Re: "plain text" vs. "running text"

Peter,

--On Thursday, June 07, 2012 13:35 -0600 Peter Saint-Andre
<stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

> <hat type='individual'/>
> 
> In several places 3987bis uses "plain text" where I think it
> means "running text"...
> 
>       Delimiters "<" (U+003C), ">" (U+003E), and '"' (U+0022):
> Appendix       C of [RFC3986] suggests the use of double-quotes
>       ("http://example.com/") and angle brackets
> (<http://example.com/>)       as delimiters for URIs in plain
> text.
> 
>       Many applications (for example, mail user agents) try to
> detect       URIs appearing in plain text.
> 
> The same might be true of this sentence:
> 
>       Tags (U+E0000-E0FFF): These characters provide a way to
> language       tag in Unicode plain text.


I'm not as sure about the second case ("Unicode plain text" may
be specifically meaningful although, if that were the intent,
I'd prefer "plain Unicode text" for clarity).  But the first
case definitely look to me like a situation in which "plain
text" could be a term of art referring to a particular media
type, and hence where "running text" is definitely more clear as
well as more accurate.

   john


> 
> Peter

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